Inside the Coalition of the Willing

[arisbe]

On Tuesday, Blunkett will fight in the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the right to charge victims of miscarriages of justice more than £3000 for every year they spent in jail while wrongly convicted. The logic is that the innocent man shouldn’t have been in prison eating free porridge and sleeping for nothing under regulation grey blankets.

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[kirwar4face.livejournal.com]

But wait! I suddenly see the light at the bottom of the prosecutors' fundamental apertures! If the former prisoners will refuse to pay, they will be guilty of resisting the government. Let them then, to pay their debt to society, be assigned the time already served- in which case it will not have been wrongfully served, and they owe nothing! They may even get a few bucks back on that deal. All that remains is to de-pants Blunkett and his cohorts and fasten them upside down to stocks in the public square, to be pelted with garbage and well-placed kicks by an outraged constituency until they beg for mercy, or get a clue, whichever comes first.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

A fine solution!